On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Copied and Photoshopped Deep Fake Photos Not that anyone cares, but certain “news” feeds on the Internet continue to mislead readers with clickbait gambits to lure them into informational stories that have nothing...
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On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Solitary Tree Is Not a Lonely Tree When casual visitors to Internet sites mention planting trees as a useful practice, the whole gamut of their past experience and current expectations may come...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Gaslighting, Sophistry, and Transference The season of political shenanigans is getting into full swing. As if we haven’t already become numb with the rhetoric going back and forth, the major political parties are...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Bird Watching Fail A story without a purpose, a story without a photo, a story devoid of observations—is not much of a story at all. If the readers of these Chronicles of a Footloose Forester...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Testing Mental Acuity FreeCell solitaire Game #48995 played and won in 2:04 minutes and 84 moves sets a high bar for recognizing and executing the moves it takes to win. The Footloose Forester...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Photoshopped Deep Fake Photos and Fake News Get Married Not that anyone cares, but certain “news” feeds on the Internet continue to mislead readers with clickbait gambits to lure them into informational stories that have...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Hectarage The stimulus to attempt another chronicle of the Essays variety owes its impetus to both a previous posting on social media and to a dream about that posting. Hectarage , as the purported...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Don’t Confuse Me With Facts…My Mind Is Made Up Very often the stimulus to pen a chronicle is based on a recent event that opened up old wounds. The most recent stimulus had...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Forestation in Brazil The photo credits used in this chronicle are unknown but were copied from Facebook. My apology for taking the easy way out in re-telling a story about forestation in Brazil. Some...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Deceptions Many of the games and puzzles one finds on the Internet are enticing time wasters. And they are usually rife with hidden hacks, deceptions, and subterfuges that promote in us a sense...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Inductive Reasoning and Third-Grade Science Class The dream came first, the details came later, and the story came last. In a very pleasant dream last night, there we were, sitting on heavy wooden...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Fuzzy Wuzzy Was A Bear Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy Was he? 2 nd Grade Teacher: “Now children, for your homework I want you to go home...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Glass Half Full? Half Empty? Life holds more than a few mysteries. We can plainly see a water glass that is half full/half empty, but the question is, which is it? Some people...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Quantitative Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Critical Analysis Chemistry is fascinating but it is hard. A chem major earns respect for the mere fact of choosing a field that contains as much mystery, uncertainty, and challenge as...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Don’t Believe Everything You Read, Even in the Dictionary On the general theme of words matter, today’s chronicle is a short essay on why readers should not rely on everything they read as being...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Mystery Mango It should not take an archeological discovery for the world to share the identity of one of the most delicious fruits to ever grow on a tree. A still-mysterious mango variety from...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Mango is my Last Name, Ataulfo is my First Name This week marked the arrival of a welcome trend in advertising. Inasmuch as the Footloose Forester is suspicious of many of the deceptions in marketing techniques, the new...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Gulf Between Subjectivity and Objectivity There is no line between subjectivity and objectivity. There is a gulf. People often speak out with the pretension of authority in their voice, a loud din of force...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Searching for the Right Ingress One of the frustrations that we all share in our lives is our personal limitation on how to broach a subject, how to open a conversation, how to respond,...
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